The Charlie Kirk Show - America First is Alive and Well with Pollster Rich Baris
Aired: 2022-03-22
Duration: 34:26


=== America First and Ukraine Polling (02:44) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody, what is the new polling shot of Ukraine?
[00:00:02]  America First is alive and well.
[00:00:04]  We go through that with my friend Richard Barris.
[00:00:06]  And where did the Ukraine money go?
[00:00:09]  Meaning that $13.6 billion?
[00:00:11]  We walk through a pretty shocking piece-by-piece story from the New York Times that shows that the Ukraine money actually is not going to Ukraine.
[00:00:18]  Some of it is, but some of it's actually going to wage a domestic war against free thinkers here in America.
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=== Charlie Kirk Runs the White House (07:12) ===

[00:02:44]  Okay, we are now getting to the Ukrainian-Russian situation and story.
[00:02:48]  I want to get through some polling regarding that and also kind of dive in to what is Joe Biden's approval rating?
[00:02:55]  Has he gotten a boost from that entire situation?
[00:02:58]  And so we're going to dive right into it with my friend Richard Barris, who I'm very impressed with, who does a wonderful job with polling.
[00:03:04]  And he's going to join us for a couple segments.
[00:03:05]  Richard, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:03:08]  Hey, thanks for having me back, brother.
[00:03:09]  How you been?
[00:03:10]  Doing great.
[00:03:11]  Thank you.
[00:03:11]  And so let's start with the approval, not just approval rating of Biden.
[00:03:14]  We'll get to that in a second.
[00:03:15]  Talk to us about Ukrainian polling.
[00:03:18]  What is your data showed?
[00:03:20]  Right.
[00:03:20]  So last month we asked people several questions.
[00:03:23]  And then this month we changed it up a little bit to be more prescient, right?
[00:03:27]  Than what's going on.
[00:03:28]  And this month or last month, there was generally no public appetite for interfering in Ukraine or really ratcheting up what we do in Ukraine.
[00:03:37]  This month we got a little bit more specific and we said, you know, aside from all airstrikes and the usual talking points, do you support defending Ukraine against Russia if Ukraine starts to lose the war?
[00:03:51]  So if the tide turns, Russia looks like they're going to take Ukraine.
[00:03:55]  Do you support the U.S. military stopping the Russians in defense of Ukraine?
[00:03:59]  And the answer is no, and it's by a wide margin, about 33% of the public support it, which, interestingly enough, Charlie, was a weird coalition this month.
[00:04:10]  So, last month that was in the 20s.
[00:04:13]  So, there was a little increase, but it wasn't significant.
[00:04:18]  Where it's coming from, I would say, you know, I try to characterize this just as simply as I can.
[00:04:23]  Maybe like the Mark Levin conservative, you know, kind of on the right, or the Ben Shapiro conservative on the right.
[00:04:31]  And then Democrats that are kind of lockstep Democrats.
[00:04:34]  There are still this liberal base that doesn't want to interfere at all.
[00:04:38]  And for the most part, independents by a very large margin oppose anything in Ukraine whatsoever.
[00:04:46]  People are okay with giving them some money to help out with humanitarian aid.
[00:04:52]  But outside of that, I think that Afghanistan is still in everybody's mind, Charlie.
[00:04:57]  So, you know, you think about how we give people weapons to defend themselves.
[00:05:01]  And then a year later, you know, $80 billion worth is just there for the taking of our enemies.
[00:05:06]  And I think that is still so it's not stale yet in people's minds.
[00:05:11]  So they're hesitant to do it.
[00:05:13]  That's fascinating.
[00:05:14]  So in a general population, what percentage support Ukrainian military intervention?
[00:05:19]  You said 33%.
[00:05:21]  Yeah, about a third, just about a third, 33.4 or something like that.
[00:05:26]  So it's generally a third.
[00:05:29]  And when we look at independents, where, you know, this is why, I mean, I know partisan views change, but overall, independents have been pretty consistent on this.
[00:05:38]  Support for that is in the 20s.
[00:05:40]  And really, that's across the board.
[00:05:42]  Even we asked enforcing a no-fly zone.
[00:05:45]  You know, independents right now, they don't want to talk about this.
[00:05:49]  They want to talk about inflation.
[00:05:50]  They want to talk about not being able to fill up their gas tanks.
[00:05:53]  They want to talk about increase in housing prices.
[00:05:55]  They can't afford a mortgage now that it's one percentage point higher.
[00:06:00]  This is what people are concerned about.
[00:06:01]  And I think it's a big trap here for Republicans to jump on board because public opinion moves when it comes to war.
[00:06:08]  We beat those war drums, we beat them, and it becomes the patriotic thing to do.
[00:06:12]  It does not last.
[00:06:14]  And then when the dust settles, you know, voters are always asking, well, who prioritized what really mattered to us?
[00:06:22]  That's really interesting.
[00:06:23]  So you get like a short-term stimulus, almost like a sugar high.
[00:06:26]  Is that about right?
[00:06:27]  Like a polling sugar high.
[00:06:29]  Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
[00:06:31]  Right.
[00:06:31]  So talk more about that.
[00:06:33]  I haven't heard anyone mention that.
[00:06:34]  It's really interesting.
[00:06:35]  Yeah, that's a really great way to put it.
[00:06:37]  So as you can put it, it's basically a short-term bump.
[00:06:40]  It's wall-to-wall media coverage.
[00:06:43]  And I'm not trying to minimize it.
[00:06:44]  I'm just simply saying, you know, it doesn't matter what channel you turn on.
[00:06:48]  It's wall-to-wall coverage for Ukraine.
[00:06:50]  What can we do to help them?
[00:06:52]  Why aren't we doing any more?
[00:06:53]  And some, you know, Americans are generous and they don't like to see anything, you know, like this.
[00:06:58]  It doesn't really, it could be an ally.
[00:07:00]  It could not be an ally.
[00:07:01]  It could be, you know, the country in southern Africa like it was in the 90s, and they still didn't like it.
[00:07:06]  But in the end, when you have problems domestically at home, like we do, Americans want to prioritize those problems first.
[00:07:15]  So, you know, I always tell people, if you really want to be shrewd, you know, looking at, you know, politics, COVID lockdown was a perfect example.
[00:07:22]  Everybody supported the lockdowns at first, right?
[00:07:25]  You're irresponsible if you don't.
[00:07:27]  You're going to kill your grandmother, your Sunday school teacher.
[00:07:30]  And very small number of us said it doesn't matter what the polls say right now.
[00:07:34]  In a year from now, what are they going to say?
[00:07:36]  And they're going to look and they're going to look at their leaders and they're going to say, who had the foresight, who had the courage to say no when it mattered.
[00:07:43]  And that's what happened.
[00:07:45]  So here we are again.
[00:07:47]  The Rock War is another is another great example.
[00:07:50]  You know, people had immediately bought into this.
[00:07:54]  If we don't fight them over there, we'll have to fight them here.
[00:07:57]  You remember that?
[00:07:58]  And a lot of people who are so, Richard, this is what's so interesting.
[00:08:01]  Yeah, right.
[00:08:02]  So let's say your polling is, you know, 35 to 40% at most of the country supports this at most.
[00:08:10]  But 90% of the media and 95% of Congress seems to support further intervention.
[00:08:16]  Where is that disconnect from?
[00:08:18]  I think Republicans particularly are just afraid of the media and they're afraid of being many of them are afraid of being called the Putin wing of the party.
[00:08:27]  Right.
[00:08:27]  I mean, that's what we've been hearing for two, for two, for two weeks.
[00:08:31]  And, but also, I think that some of this is special interest, Charlie.
[00:08:34]  I mean, let's just be serious here.
[00:08:36]  Donald Trump wasn't impeached over a phone call.
[00:08:39]  You know, he meddled with their foreign aid.
[00:08:41]  The foreign aid is a scam.
[00:08:43]  And not to get to stick.
[00:08:45]  I like to stick to my numbers, but we have a president in office right now who is full blown in the scam.
[00:08:51]  We call it perfectly normal corruption.
[00:08:53]  They take your money, the taxpayer, they give it to their friends overseas.
[00:08:57]  Their friends domestically, Western elites go into those countries and take that money that we're sending over there, like to Hunter Biden.
[00:09:05]  It's a perfect example.
[00:09:06]  They're Ukrainians in barisma.
[00:09:08]  They're not paying Hunter Biden.
[00:09:09]  You're paying Hunter Biden.
[00:09:11]  And the minute you meddle with that, then the system will come after you.
[00:09:16]  Adam Schiff, he led the impeachment.
[00:09:18]  He led the impeachment against Donald Trump, Russia 2.0, whatever you want to call it.
[00:09:23]  Adam Schiff's been knee deep in Ukrainian arms runners for years.
[00:09:27]  I mean, so, you know, it's just this disconnect because the American people at home have no interest in Ukraine, but the people in Washington, D.C. absolutely do.
[00:09:36]  Yeah, there's a lot of vested interest in D.C. in kind of the Petri dish for bad ideas, which is where they all go in Ukraine.
[00:09:45]  It's kind of this short-term place for experimentation.
[00:09:49]  Okay, so in the closing of that topic, though, does it move when people actually learn what a no-fly zone is to even be less than that?

=== Hunter Biden and Ukrainian Arms Runners (15:40) ===

[00:09:57]  Because I saw some polls.
[00:09:58]  Did you see that similarity in that poll?
[00:10:01]  I do.
[00:10:02]  I do.
[00:10:02]  And this month, we even tried to be a little bit more generous to the pro-fly zone crowd.
[00:10:09]  When people understand that a no-fly zone, I think they hear it in the media and like, oh, yeah, great.
[00:10:14]  Of course.
[00:10:14]  I mean, we should be protecting the skies and protecting innocent people.
[00:10:18]  But when they hear that that means the minute, you know, we shoot down a Russian fighter, then Russia is going to declare war or it's going to escalate.
[00:10:28]  Then they realize that, oh, that's really question one, just phrased a different way.
[00:10:34]  And in fact, no, I don't support that.
[00:10:36]  So sorry, Ukraine.
[00:10:38]  Sorry, Vladimir Zelensky.
[00:10:39]  You're on your own because no, it's, it's, you know, go ahead, go ahead.
[00:10:43]  I just want to summarize all this.
[00:10:44]  I mean, if I'm looking, if I'm reading between your polling, which is terrific, by the way, big data polls, it seems like America First is alive and well, despite the best attempts of the media, is that right?
[00:10:55]  It's the dominant view in America right now by far, hands down.
[00:11:01]  Hands down.
[00:11:02]  It's the dominant view to put our citizens first and our country first.
[00:11:05]  And there is a war weariness still in the public.
[00:11:07]  Is that right?
[00:11:08]  There is.
[00:11:10]  Afghanistan is fresh in everyone's mind.
[00:11:12]  And, you know, there's this guy in Georgia who really put it clear.
[00:11:16]  You know, I mean, he thought he was getting stability.
[00:11:19]  He did not think he was getting a new war.
[00:11:21]  He voted for Joe Biden in 2020.
[00:11:24]  And that's not what he got.
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[00:12:25]  How is Joe Biden doing, Richard?
[00:12:27]  What is your polling show?
[00:12:29]  You know, we came in a little bit after the State of the Union.
[00:12:32]  So it's possible if he did have like a larger bump after the State of the Union that we could have missed it.
[00:12:38]  I mean, some said, you know, have said that.
[00:12:40]  I don't know, Charlie.
[00:12:41]  I think that what I see in this, you know, he got back up to 40, up from 38 last month.
[00:12:47]  I think, you know, and there's the trend.
[00:12:49]  It's perfect.
[00:12:50]  I think that what maybe is going on in Ukraine, I don't even think it was the state of the union at best arrested the downward trend.
[00:12:58]  And next month, we'll definitely know more about whether or not that goes down again, because the fundamental issues that we always poll every month, foreign policy, the economy, COVID.
[00:13:09]  He ticked up a little bit with COVID.
[00:13:11]  That could have helped him a little bit as well, but it's still negative.
[00:13:14]  And overall, with inflation continuing to rise being the number one issue, hands down, I just don't know how he maintains that level, even if this was a minor bump.
[00:13:24]  The survey sampling error too is 2.1%.
[00:13:27]  So it's still within the sampling era, you know, from 38 to 40.
[00:13:32]  So I'm not sure that it's a really large, discernible bump.
[00:13:36]  Well, next month, we'll really see a little bit and we'll know.
[00:13:39]  But, you know, in those head-to-head matchups, Charlie, I think the big news in this poll, and people tell me to shut up when I say this, but it's just the truth.
[00:13:49]  Against Donald Trump, he doesn't stand a chance.
[00:13:52]  I polled all through 2020.
[00:13:54]  I never saw the numbers like this.
[00:13:56]  It was always going to be close.
[00:13:57]  Right now, Donald Trump would thrash Joe Biden.
[00:14:00]  He doesn't even look like an electable president.
[00:14:03]  So I just don't know where he goes if the economy continues to deteriorate.
[00:14:09]  You know, in the financial situation, it's not just the economy.
[00:14:12]  It's how people feel about the money they make.
[00:14:15]  It's not going to be worth as much as it is right now in 12 months.
[00:14:18]  And even today, it's not worth as much as it was 12 months ago.
[00:14:22]  This is what is concerning people the most.
[00:14:24]  So any kind of temporary bump he may have gotten, I don't know how long that's going to last, Charlie.
[00:14:29]  But I was more concerned about was that partisan affiliation swing.
[00:14:34]  That's historic.
[00:14:35]  That graph that I sent you in 12 months, Democrats, their affiliation edge has evaporated.
[00:14:43]  And that never happens that quick after a party wins the White House.
[00:14:48]  Four points.
[00:14:48]  What does the generic look like going into November?
[00:14:51]  Yeah.
[00:14:52]  So here, here's that partisan affiliation.
[00:14:55]  And when we started this public polling project about 12 months ago, Democrats about 7.7 affiliation edge.
[00:15:02]  This month it tilted slightly Republican, about two-tenths of a percentage point.
[00:15:05]  And you can see that that was going on for a while.
[00:15:08]  The generic ballot right now has been in our polling around Republican plus eight for a while.
[00:15:14]  This month they maintain that lead again.
[00:15:16]  So Democrats are having a hard time getting over 40% in our polling.
[00:15:21]  That doesn't factor in turnout, doesn't factor in credit selection.
[00:15:24]  I mean, it could be a bloodbath.
[00:15:26]  Now, COVID might be coming back.
[00:15:28]  That's a separate topic for a different time.
[00:15:29]  I want to ask you, though, do people blame Russia and the Russian war for inflation?
[00:15:34]  Are they connecting those dots?
[00:15:35]  Yeah.
[00:15:35]  Or what are they attributing to be for the higher prices they're paying?
[00:15:39]  Yeah, that's a great question.
[00:15:40]  And the answer is no.
[00:15:42]  People know that inflation started months and months and months ago with gas prices.
[00:15:49]  We started to ask them about this right after the new year.
[00:15:53]  And they blame Joe Biden.
[00:15:54]  It's that simple.
[00:15:56]  I don't know how they in the world they thought they were going to pull this off, even though gas prices are just really one component of the CPI.
[00:16:04]  For months, we've been asking people who chose cost of living and inflation as their number one issue.
[00:16:09]  What is it that made you say that?
[00:16:12]  Is it gas?
[00:16:13]  Is it housing and shelter, utilities, transportation?
[00:16:16]  We mimic the CPI because we want to know what people are feeling.
[00:16:19]  And it's been gas for months, Charlie, months before Ukraine.
[00:16:23]  Groceries, too, was also a very, very big deal.
[00:16:26]  Gas and groceries have kind of been battling it out.
[00:16:29]  The last month or so, gas has really started to pull away.
[00:16:33]  But the bottom line is people know this started well before this issue in Ukraine.
[00:16:38]  I've said for a while that there just needs to be kind of a public service campaign done on conservative groups, just fairly explaining how we created $6 trillion in the last year and a half and how inflation was created by the government.
[00:16:50]  Because I'm glad your polling is reflecting that because it's true, not just because it helps Republicans and conservatives, because it's true.
[00:16:58]  It's just not fair to say that things were getting remarkably more expensive well before the war in Ukraine, especially in cities like Phoenix, Atlanta, many cities in Texas and Florida.
[00:17:09]  Richard, right of time, thank you so much.
[00:17:10]  Website so people can follow you.
[00:17:13]  Sure.
[00:17:13]  Check me out at locals on the locals page where we do this, peoplespundant.locals.com, anywhere else you can find on there.
[00:17:20]  That's where to find, that's where to really follow all the polling we do, Charlie.
[00:17:23]  We're going to have you back on with great regularity.
[00:17:25]  And boy, November will be here before we know it, Richard.
[00:17:28]  Always is, my friend.
[00:17:29]  There's some good primaries coming up.
[00:17:30]  We'd love to steal you for some primary coverage, especially the Arizona one that's in August, I think.
[00:17:34]  So it's still a ways out.
[00:17:35]  Thanks so much.
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[00:18:54]  Okay, so I was reading the New York Times this last weekend.
[00:18:57]  I'm sorry about that.
[00:18:59]  Well, actually, you guys should be saying sorry for me.
[00:19:01]  I have a tendency to read the New York Times on the weekend, just see what the regime is saying and thinking.
[00:19:06]  There's actually a pretty informative article here, though, pretty transparent.
[00:19:09]  It was published on Saturday, and I don't think it got the coverage that it deserved.
[00:19:14]  And so it's an article that basically went through and was a diagram.
[00:19:19]  The New York Times likes doing diagrams of where did all the money go in that spending bill.
[00:19:25]  This was Katie Edmondson who wrote this.
[00:19:27]  She actually deserves some credit here.
[00:19:28]  She did some nice research.
[00:19:30]  Where did all that money go where we spent on Ukraine?
[00:19:35]  So it was $14 billion, and it breaks it down piece by piece by piece.
[00:19:41]  Now, some of it is pretty conventional, and some of it you're probably not going to find too controversial.
[00:19:45]  For example, food and foreign aid, even though the foreign aid industrial complex is very corrupt, it rarely ever goes to the intended recipient.
[00:19:54]  Rarely does foreign aid actually help the people you think it's helping.
[00:19:57]  But let's pretend it does.
[00:19:58]  I'm not even going to get into that.
[00:19:59]  That's a separate topic for another time.
[00:20:01]  So it's broken into different categories.
[00:20:03]  So the first category, $13.6 billion in United States spending on Ukraine.
[00:20:07]  Now, remember, a lot of Republicans voted for this.
[00:20:09]  So if your Republican senator voted for this, buckle up.
[00:20:12]  Just wait till you hear where this money is going.
[00:20:14]  So of course, $13.6 billion in emergency spending last week related to Ukraine's fight against Russia invasion.
[00:20:20]  So here I am on an airplane flying back from San Marcos, and I read this.
[00:20:24]  I said, what do you mean related?
[00:20:27]  That doesn't sound right.
[00:20:28]  That sounds like Washington, D.C. manipulation speech.
[00:20:32]  Related?
[00:20:33]  Well, a lot of things could be related.
[00:20:34]  So then I really got my curious hat on.
[00:20:37]  So I dove into this article by the New York Times.
[00:20:38]  I said, where's the breakdown?
[00:20:40]  Hey, the New York Times did a much better breakdown than I would have ever thought they would.
[00:20:45]  So let me just go through some of the stuff that's quote-unquote non-controversial.
[00:20:48]  We'll start there.
[00:20:49]  $1.4 billion for humanitarian support and resettlement of Ukrainian refugees.
[00:20:55]  Okay, I don't know if they're coming to America or not, separate issue for a different time.
[00:20:58]  $1.1 billion to support Ukraine's government, which I find to be really perplexing considering how corrupt we know that.
[00:21:06]  How much of that $1.1 billion is going to go to support the Azov battalion, the known neo-Nazis in southeastern Ukraine?
[00:21:15]  $647 million to provide direct financial support and other economic assistance to Ukraine and other countries affected by the invasion.
[00:21:23]  By the way, just a couple of these line items, if you would have put them together, could easily secure our southern border.
[00:21:30]  But then there is one here that I just, I had to stop what I was reading.
[00:21:33]  I said, has anyone actually thought about auditing where this money went?
[00:21:36]  Has any Republican thought deeply about what this actually might mean?
[00:21:41]  And I had to reread it three or four times.
[00:21:42]  $120 million to counter disinformation and Russian propaganda and to support independent media and activists.
[00:21:53]  What?
[00:21:54]  $120 million to counter disinformation.
[00:21:58]  So what do they consider to be disinformation?
[00:22:01]  Well, this program they consider to be disinformation.
[00:22:04]  Producer Andrew, to his great credit, he is fighting fact checks on an almost daily basis on Facebook and YouTube.
[00:22:12]  Is that now going to be funded by the federal government?
[00:22:15]  $120 million to counter disinformation and Russian propaganda.
[00:22:20]  So it doesn't say that it's going to be countering Russian propaganda.
[00:22:24]  It's disinformation and Russian propaganda.
[00:22:27]  Even worse than this, the New York Times reports it's then going to support independent media and activists.
[00:22:36]  $120 million to activists?
[00:22:41]  What activists exactly are going to get that $120 million?
[00:22:44]  You see, this is one of the things that we tried to warn against a week and a half ago, where we walked through and said, I hope these Republican senators have thought this through.
[00:22:51]  Of course, they didn't.
[00:22:53]  So they go and they vote for this big bill.
[00:22:55]  And then all of a sudden, wait a second, is BLM going to get this money?
[00:22:58]  Probably not.
[00:23:00]  They can't even accept money from Amazon Prime because they're so corrupt under many investigations.
[00:23:06]  But what do they mean?
[00:23:08]  So the New York Times says $120 million to counter disinformation and Russian propaganda and to support independent media and activists.
[00:23:16]  Who is independent media and activists exactly?
[00:23:19]  Who are these people?
[00:23:19]  Where's that money going?
[00:23:22]  I don't expect an answer anytime soon.
[00:23:23]  Well, it gets worse.
[00:23:25]  $30 million to continue integrating Ukraine's electricity grid into Europe.
[00:23:30]  Goes on to say why we need that.
[00:23:32]  Yet no money to actually allow United States energy to be explored and sent to Europe to help them with their energy crisis.
[00:23:42]  It continues.
[00:23:43]  Yeah, producer Andrew says we're going to apply for a grant.
[00:23:46]  Actually, I don't want federal money grants, actually.
[00:23:48]  We denied, proudly denied taxpayer funding during COVID, and I was really proud of that at Turning Point USA.
[00:23:54]  We denied the PPP money.
[00:23:57]  We rejected it.
[00:23:59]  Okay, also $2.6 billion to provide food assistance and healthcare to Ukrainians and neighboring countries affected by the war.
[00:24:06]  No real problem with that.
[00:24:07]  But then here's an interesting new one because then they re-break it into another package.
[00:24:12]  It's like, wait a second, what?
[00:24:13]  So then they have another package that's $175.5 million.
[00:24:16]  I really mean this.
[00:24:17]  How many Republicans actually knowingly voted for this?
[00:24:22]  Meaning, how many Republicans thought deeply about what was in this and actually informed themselves?
[00:24:27]  I don't know.
[00:24:27]  That's just an open question.
[00:24:29]  So here's a new one.
[00:24:31]  Republicans who just voted for this bill and Democrats just gave the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to the New York Times, $43.6 million to investigate cyber threats, perform counterintelligence, and monitor cryptocurrency activities.
[00:24:53]  Did you know that was part of the Ukrainian relief bill?
[00:24:56]  That Republicans and people that supported it decided to give $43.6 million to the Federal Bureau of Investigation so they could monitor your cryptocurrency activities.
[00:25:08]  If you own cryptocurrencies, you very well might have your transactions now monitored by the FBI thanks to a Ukrainian assistance bill.
[00:25:19]  What does that have to do with one another?
[00:25:20]  It goes back to why I was so curious in the first place.
[00:25:22]  The New York Times says, related to Ukraine's fight, somehow cryptocurrencies, I guess their fear is that Russian oligarchs are going to be sending assets into America via cryptocurrency.
[00:25:35]  Oh, it gets better.

=== Cryptocurrency Funds Russian Oligarchs (03:15) ===

[00:25:37]  Another $25 million on top of the $120 million, this one just plainly, no Russian propaganda, $25 million to combat disinformation and support independent journalism.
[00:25:57]  So let's just add on to it.
[00:25:58]  Another $25 million to combat disinformation, which is our program, Tucker Carlson Show.
[00:26:05]  So they're going to have $25 million.
[00:26:06]  How are they going to combat disinformation?
[00:26:08]  Who's going to audit this, by the way?
[00:26:11]  $19 million for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
[00:26:17]  I don't know what that is.
[00:26:19]  $4 million for oversight of emergency funds and the operations of USAID.
[00:26:24]  $1.1 million for the National Security Division to support the Department of Justice Task Force on export control, sanctions, and cyber-related cases to the conflict.
[00:26:35]  So we have a total in this spending bill for left-wing activist groups, $145 million that have now been appropriated.
[00:26:45]  $145 million that have now been allocated towards fighting disinformation and Russian propaganda.
[00:26:54]  Of course, it all is how do you define disinformation?
[00:26:57]  They define us as disinformation.
[00:26:58]  For example, Twitter just suspended a Twitter account of a female swimmer who said biological male Leah Thomas stole her final spot.
[00:27:08]  Is that Russian disinformation?
[00:27:10]  Right now, the New York Times is working on a story about our program trying to say that we are parroting Kremlin talking points, even though we've been very clear that Vladimir Putin is a scumbag, satanically inspired, evil, and the invasion is totally on him.
[00:27:25]  Yet they say, oh, you're parroting Kremlin talking points.
[00:27:28]  Why?
[00:27:28]  Because we're asking questions.
[00:27:30]  Are we going to be part of this $145 million dragnet from the Ukrainian bill?
[00:27:35]  Well, we can thank Republicans for appropriating that.
[00:27:37]  Did they actually think about this?
[00:27:39]  Did they read the bill before they passed it?
[00:27:41]  Of course not.
[00:27:42]  Or maybe if they did, they're like, oh, yeah, whatever, $145 million to counter disinformation and Russian propaganda and to support independent media and activists.
[00:27:51]  What is this money going to go to the ACLU?
[00:27:53]  Going to go to the Sierra Club?
[00:27:55]  And that's just $13.6 billion of a $1.5 trillion spending bill of a country that's $30 trillion in debt.
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=== American Express Anti-Racism Backlash (03:11) ===

[00:28:53]  That's noblegoldinvestments.com, noblegoldinvestments.com.
[00:28:59]  What would you think about a company like American Express bashing capitalism?
[00:29:04]  Well, that's exactly what happened recently.
[00:29:08]  American Express of all credit cards, I mean, it's not like MasterCard.
[00:29:12]  American Express kind of services the top levels of the American business community.
[00:29:18]  They came out, American Express, and they started to parent, parrot, I should say, ideas and talking points that were so incredibly radical.
[00:29:29]  Well, a new organization is fighting back against them.
[00:29:32]  It's called Color Us United, a nonprofit that advocates for a racially blind America, a morally good cause, on Monday announced that the public relations effort to expose the credit card company's, quote, harmful woke policies, including hiring and promoting employees based on race and instituting critical race theory training that teaches employees that, quote, capitalism is racist.
[00:29:54]  The group is calling on American Express.
[00:29:56]  I'm reading from thefreebeacon.com, by the way.
[00:29:58]  The group is calling on American Express to rescind the, quote, un-American policies, such as giving bonuses to managers who hire minorities and plans to place television and radio advertisements along with a social media campaign.
[00:30:12]  Following the summer of riots in 2020, American Express created a, quote, anti-racism initiative and hired a consultant to conduct training sessions on privilege and race for their employees.
[00:30:24]  Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and Color Us United board member Christopher Ruffo reported last year in the New York Post, among other exercises, employees were asked to determine their own privilege by analyzing factors such as race, sexual orientation, faith, and citizenship.
[00:30:39]  The corporation, which made $42.2 billion in profit last year, also invited a speaker to discuss inherent racism of a capitalist economy.
[00:30:49]  Huh.
[00:30:50]  American Express, who made $42.2 billion, is lecturing you about how capitalism is racist.
[00:30:57]  Several past and present employees of American Express last year told the company's top leadership that it discriminates against white employees during its hiring process.
[00:31:05]  One employee said, quote, it would be very rare for a white man to be tapped for a senior leadership position.
[00:31:11]  Quote, how can a company like American Express claim American part of its name if it consistently drives policies that are incredibly un-American, like promoting the idea that capitalism is racist and offering bonuses for people to hire by race?
[00:31:24]  Kenny Zhu, president of Color Us United, said, quote, our choice to brand the company on American Express is designed to wake up to be a wake-up call for the company.
[00:31:33]  Most Americans oppose politics and divisive worldviews in the workplace.
[00:31:36]  If you guys use American Express, you need to cancel it immediately.
[00:31:41]  You should not have American Express, not after this.
[00:31:43]  No individual should be judged on the color of their skin or their group status, Watson told of Free Beacon.
[00:31:48]  Not only does this create a toxic work environment, but also rejects everything America stands upon.
[00:31:55]  Good for Color Us United for pushing back against this totalitarianism and the anti-American inclinations of American Express.

=== AOC Explains Capitalism Live (02:21) ===

[00:32:05]  Okay, I want to get to another piece of sound here.
[00:32:09]  It's actually kind of very similar to this.
[00:32:11]  Kind of what is capitalism?
[00:32:13]  What is markets?
[00:32:14]  Look, markets have problems, obviously.
[00:32:16]  They have externalities.
[00:32:16]  They have issues.
[00:32:18]  But free markets and more importantly, private property and the ability to trade and the liberty to do so is the best way to organize society.
[00:32:26]  Well, AOC has something to say about that.
[00:32:28]  And she kind of whispers to her followers on an Instagram video.
[00:32:32]  She says most people don't know what capitalism is.
[00:32:34]  Play cut 15.
[00:33:05]  Okay, so I think she's losing it.
[00:33:06]  So keep her in your prayers.
[00:33:08]  She's slipping very quickly.
[00:33:10]  She has said she's going through some mental health issues.
[00:33:12]  So I pray for her to be able to get her mind back because that was just a weird video.
[00:33:17]  And yes, she doesn't know what capitalism is, obviously.
[00:33:20]  Would love the opportunity to have a discussion with AOC about anything meaningful.
[00:33:23]  It'd be a dream of mine one day to be able to do that, to be able to have a discussion about what markets actually are and what they have done for people and how she is recording live on an iPhone on Instagram, who saying that people don't know what capitalism is.
[00:33:38]  It's just, it's just really, it's deliciously ironic.
[00:33:44]  Everyone benefits from markets in one way or the other.
[00:33:46]  There are externalities.
[00:33:47]  Markets are only as good as the people who participate them.
[00:33:50]  The rule of law is instrumental for markets.
[00:33:52]  Markets have problems.
[00:33:53]  Of course they do.
[00:33:54]  But it still remains the best way to organize society, to lift people out of poverty, to empower the individual so that all people can flourish to new heights and to be able to succeed.
[00:34:08]  AOC's struggling.
[00:34:09]  I wish her well.
[00:34:13]  Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
[00:34:14]  Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:34:17]  Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
[00:34:18]  God bless.
[00:34:22]  For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.